An Examination of Mr Robinson of Cambridges Plea for the Divinity of Our Lord
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Fellow of VVadham college, and Laudian ProfefTor of Arabic. 1784. As The P R E F A C E. Xv As this will be found to be the truth, the more it is fought into J it will fliew that Mr. White has given a very defedlive, and in one refped too un- favourable an account of the Mahometan reli- gion (^). For dreadful as the ravages were, which its votaries at firft committed, and fatal as its efFefts have been in many countries j yet in the hands and under the direflion of that Divine Pro- vidence, whic...h overruleth all things, and bringeth good out of evil, it has retained, and prefcrves in {e) I am glad to infcrt the opinion of a venerable writer, in concurrence with what is advanced in the following work, of the benefits of Mahometifm to the world, as it was at the time when he appeared : though he does not touch upon the great advantage which I truft the chriftian nations will derive from that religion, falfe as it is in many refpedls. *' All ** authors agree, that what gave Mahomet the greateft room " to advance his new religion, was the diftraded, ignorant, *' corrupt ftate of the eaftern church at that time ; the mifera- " ble contentions, and mofl horrid perfecutions, on every re- *' liglous pretence ; the diffolutenefs of all fe6ls and parties : *' and 'tis evident that he contributed not only to reform the '* morals of a great part of the world, but likewife reduced '* them from polytheifm and grofs idolatry, to the belief and " worfhip of one God ; which was the principal dodrine he fet ** out with at firft, and gained great reputation by; and which " he made the ground of his pretended miffion.
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